Exxon Shuts Cat Cracker and Alkylation Unit for Maintenance
By Aaron Clark
Sept. 9, 2009 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s
largest oil company, is shutting a fluid catalytic cracker and an
alkylation unit for planned maintenance at its Joliet, Illinois,
refinery.
“We are beginning the process of shutting down” for
several weeks, Tricia Simpson, a spokeswoman for Exxon Mobil,
said in a telephone interview. The plant has one cat cracker,
according to Simpson, who declined to say when the two units
would be back in service.
The refinery is located about 40 miles (64 kilometers)
southwest of Chicago and can process about 262,000 barrels of
crude a day, according to Simpson.
